Iran has launched financial channels with a number of countries to conduct money transactions to confront the US sanctions, Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdolnasser Hemmati announced on Tuesday.

Iran is conducting positive negotiations with the eight states which were granted waivers from US sanctions to purchase oil from Tehran, said the governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) on Saturday.

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said in a statement on Sunday that recent developments in foreign exchange and gold markets have nothing to do with the country's economic realities and the strength of the national currency.

The Indian government has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe political consultancy Cambridge Analytica’s misuse of Facebook user data, India’s law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told parliament on Thursday.